The High Intensity Heavy-ion Accelerator Facility (HIAF), a major national science and technology infrastructure project in China, has completed construction and passed its technological acceptance review on July 21. The facility is now beginning trial operations.

All the ten national key scientific and technological infrastructures that have been built and put into operation in Shanghai are now open to public use. These infrastructures, which include the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) and the National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai, serve as important engines for the integration of science and technology innovation and industries in the city.

China's comprehensive research vessel KEXUE departed from Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province Saturday for an estimated 40-day mission in the western Pacific, marking the 15th voyage of a shared research cruise that began in 2010.

The inaugural ceremony of the journal Accelerator: Science, Technology & Applications (ACCEL), a new peer-reviewed English journal focusing on particle accelerator science, was held on June 18 at the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility of the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (SARI-CAS). Representatives from top research institutions and universities attended the event.

A 360-degree rotating beam proton therapy system has made significant progress. It was officially approved for medical device registration by the National Medical Products Administration on May 8, and the first batch of patients began treatment on May 12. This system is jointly developed by the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Shanghai Apactron Particle Equipment Co. Ltd., the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, and Ruijin Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), known as China's "Sky Eye," has completed a key maintenance milestone in southwest China's Guizhou Province. On June 15, engineers finished installing six massive, domestically developed steel cables, fully replacing the core components of its cable-driven suspension system.

The Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) and the National Time Service Center (NTSC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences held a plaque-unveiling ceremony for the Hong Kong Station of the National Standard Time and Joint Atomic Time at the HKO Headquarters. Through the first Hong Kong Station, the HKO provides the NTSC with raw measurement data for the generation and maintenance of the Joint Atomic Time and collaborates in promoting the development of the Joint Atomic Time.

More than 60 kilometers from the urban area of Beijing, surrounded by mountains beside the Yanqi Lake, the Synergetic Extreme Condition User Facility (SECUF) operates quietly in the Huairou Science City.

The fourth meeting of High Energy Photon Source (HEPS) International Advisory Committee (IAC) was held at the HEPS campus, Huairou District, Beijing, on March 25-27, 2026. Chaired by Harald Reichert from DESY and co-chaired by ZHAO Zhentang from SARI, the three-day meeting brought together 21 leading international experts to review the project's progress and future plans.

China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) on Tuesday issued its latest dataset, including more than 30 million spectra, to domestic astronomers and international collaborators, cementing its position as the survey project with the highest number of released spectra worldwide.